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Traditional Psychotherapy
I would like to know from people who have had a psychotherapy or wo study psychology whether there are alternative approaches to the classical model: eerything is set in your childhood and you can only get over all your problems now if you start recognising your problems with mum and dad. Is this approach totally indisputed? Are there other forms of therapy?
Thanx!
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Reply 3
psychotherapists usually offer te first i.e. childhood memories,
i would imagine there are those, who look to the future, i think i saw a programme on it.
i would imagine there are those, who look to the future, i think i saw a programme on it.
Some psychotherapists specialise in CBT- psychotherapists traditionally have a background in either psychiatry or mental health nursing.
Other psychotherapists use the talking therapy form, ie what you mentioned already delving into your childhood, and basically scrutinizing experiences that have happened to you to understand why you are the way you are. It is not unusual for this to take 7 years to "resolve" your issues!!!
Nowadays there are also therapists trained in CBT only-they usually have to have a primary degree in eg psycholgy before they train in CBT
So, you really have to shop around and try to work out what one you like the sounds of most, from the descriptions of their training and their approach to the therapy they provide ie for example somebody may find counselling, the most usual type of "help" found in school/college/uni, to be comforting and a valuable service for pouring out their worries, but when it comes to taking action and making life changes they find CBT the way to go
Other psychotherapists use the talking therapy form, ie what you mentioned already delving into your childhood, and basically scrutinizing experiences that have happened to you to understand why you are the way you are. It is not unusual for this to take 7 years to "resolve" your issues!!!
Nowadays there are also therapists trained in CBT only-they usually have to have a primary degree in eg psycholgy before they train in CBT
So, you really have to shop around and try to work out what one you like the sounds of most, from the descriptions of their training and their approach to the therapy they provide ie for example somebody may find counselling, the most usual type of "help" found in school/college/uni, to be comforting and a valuable service for pouring out their worries, but when it comes to taking action and making life changes they find CBT the way to go
There are dozens of forms of psychotherapy, which work with varying degrees of efficacy. It rather depends on what the psychotherapy is being used to treat; CBT is almost completely inefficacious in the treatment of personality disorders, especially the narcissistic, antisocial, &c. On the whole treatment for personality disorders, because they are so thoroughly bound up with the constitution of the individual, require years of psychoanalytic intervention to yield any valuable results, though there are exceptions here and there. Some forms of psychotherapy are directed at specific problems, e. g., dialectical behavioural therapy for bipolar disorder; psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is very useful for borderline personality disorder; intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy for somatoform and personality disorders; and so on. In some patients, cognitive analytic therapy, which is a little more aggressive than cognitive behavioural therapy, is more productive. There are a great many alternatives to the traditional Freudian psychoanalytic model, some of which yield benefits much sooner.
I would think it would entirely depend what method of psychology the psychotherapist chooses - Childhood repression etc mainly formulated back to Freudian psychology and psychoanalysis, But Cognitive and humanistic approaches are much more present centered and about yourself and your needs. While every therapy has criticisms CBT has by far the best reputation at the moment.
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thanx for all the feedback. The backround of my question is simply that a friend of mine is currently going through such a traditional therapy and I for myself find that she is currently doing worse rather than better. As for her, she does of course what her therapist tells her is necessary, but I wonder whether this is really the right way. I also doubt that her main problems come from her parents, but more from her situation. Just wondered..
thanx for all the feedback. The backround of my question is simply that a friend of mine is currently going through such a traditional therapy and I for myself find that she is currently doing worse rather than better. As for her, she does of course what her therapist tells her is necessary, but I wonder whether this is really the right way. I also doubt that her main problems come from her parents, but more from her situation. Just wondered..
Reply 11
What type of therapy you have is a very personal issue, and every case is different.
Personally, I find CBT and client based the way forward, and that Freudian psychodynamic crap useless. I was offered counselling through the school, and even though I said I didn't want to go I was emotionally blackmailed into it. (They were telling me how it had been a great expense to the school, and they had to fight hard to get it for me, and the headmaster had my very best interests at heart yadda yadda). Everytime I went I hated it, I came out feeling demoralised, occasionally I would start crying, and the stupid woman just sat there with her patronising voice, looking over her notes at me asking "And how did that make you feel?".
Personally, I find CBT and client based the way forward, and that Freudian psychodynamic crap useless. I was offered counselling through the school, and even though I said I didn't want to go I was emotionally blackmailed into it. (They were telling me how it had been a great expense to the school, and they had to fight hard to get it for me, and the headmaster had my very best interests at heart yadda yadda). Everytime I went I hated it, I came out feeling demoralised, occasionally I would start crying, and the stupid woman just sat there with her patronising voice, looking over her notes at me asking "And how did that make you feel?".
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